From: Living Mandala <livingmandala@livingmandala.com>
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: [permaculture] Keyline Design Course with Darren Doherty: September 1 - 6, 2009
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:54:18 -1000
Dear Friends,
Check out this amazing course series and instructor line-up happening
at the Farm in TN this next month and at RDI in CA in October.
Some scholarships and worktrade opportunities are still available for
the course at the Farm in, TN.
Carbon Farming is a hot topic bringing together quite a team of all-
star sustainability specialists. The techniques being taught in this
series could truly transform agriculture, land management, food
production, and economic hardship while addressing climate change
issues with real solutions at the same time.
-Living Mandala
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Keyline Design Course
with Darren Doherty
September 1 - 6, 2009
Hosted by the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm, Summertown, TN
Click Here for More Information.
DESCRIPTION
Holistic Resource Management offers land stewards a way to make
grazing, land management and financial decisions that positively
impact land health and productivity. At present, agriculture and many
other businesses are struggling to maintain viabilty. Decreased income
often leads to a focus on increased production and harder work.
Presently, many people involved in agriculture do not realize they are
working against "nature's rules" and that their efforts are likely to
be unsuccessful until they learn to work with this process. In the
end, nature always wins and our production systems must change to be
sustainable. Too often, conventional agriculture focuses almost solely
on achieving production goals and solving specific problems, which can
create unforseen and unintended consequences that eventually detract
from land health, personal and family time and, ultimately,
profitability.
Holistic Resource Management brings the abundance and diversity of
natural systems to large-scale permaculture systems. Managing land
holistically integrates land planning, financial planning, grazing
planning and biological monitoring to find ways of being efficient and
creative with your resources to achieve the environmental and
financial results that make for a sustainable, long-term business.
Holistic management is effective because the resouce base ultimately
supports the financial goals and those of the people involved who
depend on the business for their livlihood. It teaches land stewards
to define their unique whole, to define their unique holistic goal,
and to make decisions that are economically, environmentally and
socially sound towards that goal.
INSTRUCTOR BIO - DARREN DOHERTY
Darren Doherty (Australia) is one of the world's most experienced
Permaculture Design professionals and Registered PDC Teacher who has
designed and developed over 1100 properties across 4 continents and
has taught many PDC's, including with both Bill Mollison & David
Holmgren (the co-originators of Permaculture). Darren Doherty and
David Holmgren co-teach one Permaculture Design Course a year in
Darren’s home town of Bendigo, Central Victoria, which is the only PDC
David teaches on these days. Darren has been a full-time Permaculture
Designer since 1993 (at age 24) and focussed the first half of his
career on design and development work, to the point where he became
the most prolific Permaculture Designer in Australia, designing and
developing over 1000 properties in that period, with a large
development and management team backing his design efforts. With the
births of his two younger children, by 2002 Darren tailed off his
emphasis in that regard and is now working on selected "special
projects" and teaching about 5 PDC's per year.
Darren spends about 40% of his working time these days in Viet Nam and
managing the Viet Nam projects (Permaculture development and education
projects for M&M's/Mars Inc. & ACDIVOCA) with the remaining time spent
managing a 60ha working research & demonstration farm in Southern
Victoria, Australia plus a smattering of broadacre design jobs here
and there. He has taught 14 full PDC courses , many Keyline Design
courses, as well as developed the working prototype of the world’s
first Dojo Ripper/Tiller/Mounder in association with the Yeomans Plow ™.
EAST & WEST CARBON FARMING SERIES:
Hands-on Training for Ecological and Economic Resilience
TOPICS COVERED
HOLISTIC DESIGN; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; WATER HARVESTING; IRRIGATION
SYSTEMS; MYCOFILTRATION; MYCOREMEDIATION; ECOLOGICAL PEST MANAGEMENT;
SOIL MICROBIAL ANALYSIS; DROUGHT-PROOFING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
INTEGRATED LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS; SOIL REHABILITATION; EROSION CONTROL;
PRODUCTIVE WINDBREAKS; FIRE CONTROL; ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT MODELS;
GIS/CAD DESIGN; ADVANCED PERMACULTURE DESIGN; KEYLINE DESIGN &
IMPLEMENTATION; FOOD FOREST GARDENING; ECONOMIC LOCALIZATION
DESCRIPTION
The Carbon Farming Course Series will launch the nation’s first
holistic curriculum for carbon negative agriculture, and will be the
first event in a national campaign to spread this cutting edge
curriculum throughout the United States. Taught by leading global
experts in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration, this
professional training course will encompass all of the design elements
needed to create a carbon sequestering agricultural system—returning
carbon to the soil while increasing food production.
The audience for the upcoming Holistic Carbon Farming Course Series
will include farmers, permaculturists, biologists, policy makers,
grounds keepers, land-owners etc. interested in regenerating thriving
local ecosystems throughout the world.
These courses are in direct response to the current challenges
experienced by producers & communities across the globe by a variety
of climatic, agronomic & economic conditions. Studies have shown that
permaculture-inspired soil building techniques lead to signficant
carbon sequestration, while also increasing soil fertility and water
retention. This course will provide participants with an opportunity
to learn these techniques in order to create resilient, drought proof,
soil-rich, carbon-negative agricultural systems that produce organic
food as well as additional income through the international carbon
market.
FORMAT
This course will be offered through four interrelated modules
constituting the nation’s first holistic curriculum for carbon
negative agriculture. Participants can choose to attend the entire
course, individual modules or combined selections. (Read more details
online at http://LivingMandala.com/Living_Mandala/
Carbon_Farming_09.html )
Carbon Farming East
Module 1: Aug 25-30 - Holistic Management® Training with Kirk Gadzia
Holistic Management applies systems thinking approach to managing land
resources that builds biodiversity, improves production, generates
financial strength, and improves the quality of life for those who use
it. The whole system design integrates financial planing and land use
to create profitable and sustainable agricultural systems.
Module 2: Sept 1-6 - Keyline Design with Darren Doherty
Keyline Design is a corner stone of landscape regeneration, soil
building and water retention. It is applicable in all climates and
provides an holistic framework for integrating soil building, animal
management and watershed health and agroforestry.
Module 3: Sept 8-12 - Earthworks and Food Forestry with Brad
Lancaster and Eric Toensmeier
This module focuses on landscape regeneration using permaculture
design to hold water in the landscape, and create integrated
ecosystems that provide food, fuel and fiber while increasing
biodiversity and resilience. Together, Earthworks and Food forestry
provide key building blocks for local food and water security as well
as climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration.
Module 4: Sept 13-16 - Soil Food Webs and Relocalization with Dr.
Elaine Ingham, Soil Food Web Inc. and Joel Salatin
Improving soil health and community health go hand in hand to creating
resilient local food systems that reinforce biodiversity.
Carbon Farming West
Broadacre Permaculture Design Course: Oct 9 - 21 - Instructors: Darren
Doherty, Brad Lancaster, Brock Dolman & Penny Livingston-Stark
Becoming an Affiliate or Sponsor of the Carbon Farming Series
Start supporting sustainable progress today! Help us spread the good
word about this course and others and earn cash. Affiliate marketing
is a de-centralized and synergistic model in which affiliates help to
spread the word in exchange for a referral fee or course discount.
Referrals for each registration range from $50-$150/referral .
Contact: Outreach@LivingMandala.com to find out more about being a
pollinator/sponsor for this and other related courses.
Mutual Benefits for Organizational Sponsors
Sponsors can have their logo displayed on the Living Mandala website
and other Carbon Farming partners as well as in promotional materials
regarding the series. Being a sponsor can include promoting the course
with a live link on your organization's website, sending promotional
emails about the course to related networks, or by donating resources
to support the course such as scholarship money, food, tools, office
supplies, etc.
For details about becoming an affiliate or sponsor e-mail:
affiliates@livingmandala.com